D. V. Devnull

You're fired from Calendar Masters Inc. because a week is a rather grave understatement, seeing as this thread has been out of commission for almost two months! :P ~D. V. "Watching the clock as days go by..." Devnull

Banned because I haven't seen Tansuo around these parts much... :? ~D. V. "Like, where have they been?" Devnull

Banned because if you had woke me up, that Ent's death wouldn't have happened. We were all in the car, you know. And it looks like your head is stuck in the Ent's body. :? ~D. V. "I didn't want to fall asleep driving a car... but I didn't get much of a choice." Devnull

Banned for not waking me up and allowing all of us to crash into a tree. :XD: ~D. V. "Owwww..." Devnull

If you can, you might want to post up a link to the original article that you copied that from. :idea: On other notes, I know at least one person IRL that I'll have to tell about this. :? ~D. V. "I hate when this junk happens to other people..." Devnull

spoofer, what's your horizontal size of your browser window? I've had rare times where having the browser shrunk too narrow actually blocked me from clicking on elements on pages on other sites. :mellow: ~D. V. "Just trying to rule something out..." Devnull

Banned because your signature's image is rather sleepy... Just look at th............. ZZZZZzzzzz..... <*slumps over on Sir_Squab*> ~D. V. "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............................." Devnull

SPLASH!!! :lol: Pulse Laser :twisted: ~D. V. "Temperature Spectrums... Fun..." Devnull

Banned because I now have to ask... WHAT SLAB?!?!? SLAB OF WHAT?!?!? :eek: ~D. V. "You made it a big thing, now answer the questions." Devnull

pulli, I'm getting a positive load here, albeit I'm using a slightly altered link. Try removing the "?j=1" from the address and try again. :geek: ~D. V. "This shouldn't be happening to you......" Devnull

It's far worse than that, MageUK, as the virus doesn't have to be directly in that executable, but only just a mere point of exploit. Let alone what I've already mentioned, allowing any browser (even swiftkit's) to show the adverts above the RS applet (and especially with IE's engine active) runs a high risk of the user's system getting damaged/infected. Stacked on that, it's likely most IRC users don't know how to shut off IRC DCC and/or are unable to due to whatever client they're using. Instant opening to being hit, right there. And as for the viruses/hackings/damage that have been claimed and are attributable to usage of SwiftKit, most of the ones that I'm referencing are not possible to be linked to due to having been eaten by the "page 51 monster" on the RSOF over many years. :geek: I'm afraid you guys are very unsuspecting. At this point, I'm going to leave this topic in regard to the thread be, and alone. I'll be watching from the background as the negative feedback rolls in sometime in the future. -.- ~D. V. "Far more aware than you realize..." Devnull

Banned because you either missed the joke, or decided to post back far too serious-sounding intentionally. :P ~D. V. "O RLY?" Devnull

Tip: While those of us that have FireFox-based/Chrome-based/K-Meleon browsers have access to this, nobody else does AFAIK. Therefore, ABP can't be recommended to everyone. :shame: As for the issue with those blasted Pop-Up Ads, I've felt enough of the burn on a tablet with a WebKit-based browser (that, yes, can't have ABP added to it) that I know how the OP feels. I would seriously recommend that the items resulting in the pop-up ads have those functions disabled/removed as soon as is possible, as it is too easy on mobile devices to get re-directed by an accidental mis-click and/or a bad item loading. Even having pop-up ads at all can result in users who come to Tip.It choosing to go somewhere else because their system got compromised and/or they felt like they couldn't retain their privacy on the internet. I'm pretty sure we can agree that Tip.It doesn't need to lose people over this? :( ~D. V. "Knowing the balance..." Devnull

I find myself disappointed and gravely angered that this has occurred. This is made worse by the fact that it wasn't brought past the main Tip.It community first, in order to receive proper feedback on the matter. I happen to have seen quite many forum posts out on the RSOF, here at Tip.It, and such that have specifically identified SwiftKit and their SwiftIRC server as being the point at which many have been hacked and their RS accounts stolen/ruined. The damage to other users that I have seen those posts about has either happened via IP detection and DOS attack, or via some manner in which someone on the SwiftIRC network has exploited a hole on another person's computer and compromised their computer and RS account. To switch your Tip.It IRC to being a mere set of channels on SwiftIRC, and therefore open up Tip.It's users to an IRC community that is known to lack morals and has hurt others, now results in my permanent discontinued use of IRC in regard to RuneScape and related fansites. I may have used it rarely and only when necessary, but this change was a breaking point between me possibly using an IRC client actively and my not using one at all anymore. Further, I will now have to rethink my usage of Tip.It's Forums, as mixing that other community with us is going to result in many additional, and highly detrimental issues. :angry: ~Mr. D. V. "You're likely to lose some of the security-conscious folk over this..." Devnull

Banned because in Soviet Russia, Fleshy Growth siphons you! :P ~D. V. "Now ain't that strange..." Devnull

Banned because there are too many puns with the comic this links to... :lol: ~D. V. "I hope you end up laughing like crazy..." Devnull

Questions answered and some updates... :geek: Bad economy and such... I don't have the $$$ to buy my own PC... Please don't poke further about this, because I simply won't talk about it. Anyway, this line of discussion is totally off-topic. :notalk: I don't think you quite got what I'm talking about there. We've got two monitors, one at 1920x1080, and the other (pinned on the side in terms of desktop position, off the top-right corner, sitting bumped against the side of the first desktop section) at 1024x768. With the current glitched situation, launching pretty much any D3D application results in that second desktop section physically moving to overhead on top while the application (especially NFS6:HP2) is running, instead of just sliding sideways like it used to do. This specific behavior is never supposed to be happening at all. :-| I've been trying to ask my dad to do exactly that, first backing up our current data so we don't lose anything which has no effect on the current situation (like browser/email/document data) that we want/need to keep. We can obviously then copy the data back in afterward. On the bad side however, we've also had a Firewall switch from ZA Pro 7-series Firewall to Comodo 5.10-series Firewall, a whole ton of new firewall rules generated, a physical monitor change (due to an old, dying CRT monitor) of the primary monitor, and an upgrade of the ATI Catalyst from 10.12 to 12.4 (this last one done in an attempt to stop the glitch), all since the last backup. (As a reminder, this glitch stemmed from running RuneScape and having a bad laggy moment while changing RS Rendering Modes from DirectX 3D to OpenGL right after the physical monitor change.) I think he's being dead resistant to doing the revert (which would put us back on ZA Pro 7-series Firewall, at least temporarily...) probably because it would pull out the Comodo 5.10-series Firewall changeover, and the Rules that we've already had to tweak several times to prevent startup/shutdown crashes (Although, I've popped the fact that it would give us a second chance to possibly do that better from the ground up.), as well as pull the Catalyst 12.4 Upgrade (same to be said regarding handling this issue)... :huh: On other notes, I've already found out that the glitch (since we stop-gapped the OpenGL issue) with D3D apparently is already affecting his Admin account (and therefore likely everyone else) as well. (Just my bad luck, I've found out I'm also the person with a better memory of this computer's behavior, so getting the point across is a mountain of trouble for me.) So I can pretty much assume that DirectX's core is also damaged, as this was showing itself during the D3D v8/v9 part of the tests, but not during the D3D v7 test part. Which reminds me, we don't have a system restore point from before the issue happened. So that chance to jump backwards is gone... That, and the Catalyst 12.4 Upgrade probably blocked that anyway, as the old 10.12 files aren't in an installed state on the PC anymore. :wall: At this point, I'm pretty much being forced (yes, thanks to my dad) to look only at ways of fixing the system while continuing to go forward. So, if anyone here has any way to do that and end this issue with DirectX/OpenGL/this PC, please feel free to share it. Right now, I'm near a point of total mental overload. :( ~D. V. "Caught between a mountain and an extremely hard place..." Devnull

Banned for mistweaking the name of a music piece by Vanessa Carlton... Shame on you. :shame: ~D. V. "The Reference Detector" Devnull

Banned for accidentally running into Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan and knocking all 3 of you over in one blow. :blink: ~D. V. "Now that's stunning!" Devnull

Disrupted Hearing :boohoo: That Yellow Wizard Calling For Me Again... :roll: ~D. V. "And I know both of the above feelings..." Devnull

Banned because I honestly didn't know what you think I knew. :shame: ~D. V. "Or are you trying to make yourself the rear-end of a joke?" Devnull

Hiya, 999134... Glad to hear you'll still be with us on Tip.It Forums. Maybe I'll see you in Forum Games more since you won't be playing RuneScape? :D ~D. V. "Looking forward to having another player..." Devnull

Profiling for easy re-read later... just don't have the time right now to think about it. :( ~D. V. "On the go, big time..." Devnull

Banned because it can't be that well played if you're banning me for it. :lol: ~D. V. "Funny thought, though..." Devnull

Banned because I think I just sniped you, hard. :twss: ~D. V. "LOL!!!" Devnull